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Migration and home affairs policy

Common European Union policy on asylum, migration and border management

Among the European Union's objectives is to offer freedom, security and justice without internal borders, while taking appropriate measures at the external borders to regulate asylum and immigration and to prevent and combat crime. In this way, border control, internal security and migration challenges are a political priority for the EU and its Member States.

These policies are developed on three fronts:

  1. Asylum policy: in order to provide an appropriate status for third-country nationals in need of international protection in one of the Member States and to ensure respect for the principle of non-refoulement. That is why the Union is making efforts to create the European Common Asylum System.
  2. Immigration policy: a global, forward-looking, European immigration policy based on solidarity. Immigration policy aims to establish a balanced approach to tackling both legal and irregular immigration.
  3. External border management: in recent years, the challenges related to the increase in mixed migration flows in the Union, the COVID-19 pandemic and the new security realities, among others, have highlighted deficiencies in the policies relating to the protection of the Union's external borders, which are also sometimes manifested at its internal borders.

Among the European Union's objectives is to offer freedom, security and justice without internal borders. It is also the adoption of appropriate measures at the external borders to regulate asylum and immigration, and to prevent and combat crime. Border control, internal security and migration challenges are a political priority for the EU and its Member States.

Migration and home affairs policies and European funds

Migration, border control and internal security are part of the European Union's major priorities for the financial framework 2021-2027. In order to meet current and future challenges, three new financing instruments have been created for this period:

  1. Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF)

    to contribute to the effective management of migration flows together with the implementation, strengthening and development of the common asylum policy and the common immigration policy.

  2. Internal Security Fund (ISF)

    to contribute to ensuring a high level of security in the Union, in particular by preventing and combating terrorism and radicalisation, serious and organised crime and cybercrime.

  3. Instrument for Border and Visa Management (IGFV)

    to contribute to the development and implementation of sound and effective integrated European management of external borders, strengthening the level of internal security in the Union, and safeguarding the free movement of persons within the Union.